MY PROTECTOR
A St. Joseph Novena for Strength and Guidance
About the 9-Day St. Joseph Novena
My Protector is a St. Joseph novena that combines traditional St. Joseph novena prayers with the guidance of two powerful saints: St. Joseph is joined by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Mother Seton looked up to St. Joseph so much that she named her first school and religious order after him. Why? Maybe she loved St. Joseph so much because they had so much in common. Like St. Joseph, Mother Seton was a spouse and a worker. Joseph is the prototypical spouse and worker, who devoted himself to his family and his profession. Mother Seton did the same. Whatever struggle you are enduring, St. Joseph and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton are here to guide you and protect you.
Join your prayers with the Seton Shrine. We will pray every day for your intentions offered through this St. Joseph Novena throughout the Year of St. Joseph. Simply click on the current day below, then pray the meditation. You can also sign up for email reminders.
St. Joseph Novena Daily Meditations
St. Joseph Novena Day 1
Oh, St. Joseph, inspire in me the confidence to trust in the promises of God.
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St. Joseph Novena Day 2
Oh, St. Joseph, open my heart to listen to God and respond with humble obedience. Read Meditation
St. Joseph Novena Day 3
Oh, St. Joseph, open my heart to listen to God and respond with humble obedience. Read Meditation
St. Joseph Novena Day 4
Oh, St. Joseph, I ask for the protection of you, model husband, father, and proctor. Read Meditation
St. Joseph Novena Day 5
Oh, St. Joseph, grant me the grace to live with gratitude and a heart of service. Read Meditation
St. Joseph Novena Day 6
Oh, St. Joseph, help me to cling to the truth and guidance of Christ and his Church. Read Meditation
St. Joseph Novena Day 7
Oh, St. Joseph, guide as me I strive to care for the people God has put in my life. Read Meditation
St. Joseph Novena Day 8
Oh, St. Joseph, in your actions, you show us how to follow God more perfectly. Read Meditation
St. Joseph Novena Day 9
Oh, St. Joseph, you give me the hope of a happy and peaceful death. Read MeditationSt. Joseph Daily Novena Prayers
Oh, St. Joseph, whose protection is so great, so prompt, so strong, before the throne of God, I place in you all my interests and desires.
Oh, St. Joseph, do assist me by your powerful intercession, and obtain for me from your Divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So that, having engaged here below your heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of fathers.
Oh, St. Joseph, my protector, guide me as I meditate on your life and that of Mother Seton. I never weary of contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your arms. Press him in my name and kiss his fine head for me and ask him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath.
Oh, glorious St. Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, to you do I raise my heart and hands, to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the benign heart of Jesus all the helps and graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special favor I now implore.
Oh, St Joseph, guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel filled with confidence that your prayers on my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God.
Oh, glorious St. Joseph, through the love you bear to Jesus Christ, and for the glory of his name, hear my prayers and obtain my petitions.
Oh, glorious St. Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for me a pure, humble, and charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be my guide, father and model through life, that I may merit to die as you did, in the arms of Jesus and Mary.
Amen.
How to Pray the St. Joseph Novena
Sign up to receive email reminders with a link to pray the novena each day.
When you pray, begin with the Sign of the Cross: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Next, recite the prayers for the day. Each day has the introductory prayer, a meditation on the example of St. Joseph and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, and the closing prayer. You will have the opportunity to voice your intentions twice each day.
Conclude your time in prayer with a Glory Be: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.